Musgrave blames loss on 'leftist special interests'
By Daniel J. Chacon, Rocky Mountain News (Contact)
Published December 2, 2008 at 5:29 p.m.
Republican Rep. Marilyn Musgrave has withdrawn from public view since her election defeat.
Marilyn Musgrave speaks.
Well, sort of.
The Republican congresswoman, who has kept a low profile since losing her re-election bid in November, made this week what is believed to be her first public remarks since then.
Musgrave recorded a robo-call on behalf of Georgia Sen. Saxby Chambliss, who won a runoff election Tuesday against Democrat Jim Martin.
Musgrave acknowledged her loss to Betsy Markey in the recording, although she hasn't called the Democrat to concede in the weeks since she was soundly defeated in a bitter race in Colorado's 4th Congressional District.
In the message, Musgrave blamed her defeat on "leftist special interests" that "overwhelmed us with money and ... smothered the truth with vicious attacks and lies."
Musgrave said the same thing was happening in the Peach State during the runoff.
The call went out Monday afternoon to about 275,000 Georgia households with registered voters, said Joy Yearout, political director for the Susan B. Anthony List, which supports female candidates who oppose abortion.
Yearout said Musgrave didn't hesitate when asked to record the call.
"We've worked closely with her, and she supports our efforts," she said.
Musgrave's robo-call was first reported on the Web site of the Fort Collins Coloradoan.
Yearout said Musgrave's loss in November was a huge blow to her organization — and to Colorado.
"It was a great loss for us and an even greater loss for the 4th District of Colorado. They lost a great member of Congress," she said.
Unlike Musgrave, Markey supports abortion rights.
Markey is "not going to be doing much to defend women and unborn children in the halls of Congress. We know that much," Yearout said.
Ben Marter, Markey's spokesman, declined to respond to Yearout's remarks. He offered only a general statement.
"Betsy is honored to have been chosen by the voters to represent them, and she's working hard getting ready to go to Washington to represent the people of the 4th Congressional District," he said.
Musgrave's spokesman could not be reached for comment.
Musgrave, who was seeking a fourth term, and Markey, a first-time office-seeker, ran a fiercely competitive race.
For months, the pair clogged the airwaves with negative and sometimes vicious campaign ads that even triggered criminal complaints against each other.
In an ad unleashed close to the election, Musgrave accused Markey of facing time in prison, prompting Markey’s old boss, U.S. Sen. Ken Salazar, D-Colo., to call Musgrave “an agent of hate.”
MUSGRAVE'S MESSAGE
Hello, I'm Marilyn Musgrave.
Until last month I was the congresswoman from Colorado.
Leftist special interests from around the country poured money into my district to defeat me.
They overwhelmed us with money. And they smothered the truth with vicious attacks and lies.
We are seeing the same pattern in Georgia.
Pro-abortion radicals and liberal activists won't stop until they have a chokehold on our government.
You can stop them with your vote.
It's too late to change the results in Colorado, but on Tuesday you can cast your vote for Saxby Chambliss.
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December 2, 2008
5:49 p.m.
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KarlCheney writes:
waa, waa, waaaaaaa, She couldn't have lost fair and square, oh no it's because of special interest groups, waaaa, waaaaa, waaaa.
December 2, 2008
5:50 p.m.
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gr8fun4me writes:
I'm so happy that she is out of office! Enough said.
December 2, 2008
5:54 p.m.
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stevefromboulder writes:
What a joke. Musgrave is an extremist of the right and thank goodness Americans and Colorado got fed up with that kind of BS and opted for a more centrist leadership. She's part of the "American Taliban" as far as I'm concerned; her shrill ideology trumps logic and compassion. Good riddance.
December 2, 2008
6:03 p.m.
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December 2, 2008
6:07 p.m.
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fuzzyjim writes:
This race was the ugliest I saw this year. Both sides used mostly attack ads, and if what they said was true, both these women would likely be in jail. Musgrave whines about vicious attacks and lies. Well, her attacks and lies were particularly vicious. She has no class and she deserved to be shown the door.
Colorado doesn't need Musgrave representing it in Washington, and the voters said so. Here's hoping Markey can put a better face forward for our fair state.
December 2, 2008
6:16 p.m.
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TimeLord writes:
Is this the same pig who ran ads implying her opponent faced prison?
Why yes, it is that very same pig.
December 2, 2008
6:20 p.m.
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B1 writes:
"waa, waa, waaaaaaa, She couldn't have lost fair and square, oh no it's because of special interest groups, waaaa, waaaaa, waaaa."
Now you know what the left has sounded like for the last eight years.
December 2, 2008
6:32 p.m.
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NDCowboy writes:
Republicans have always been sore losers and they try to blame everyone for their mistakes. Look at Bush. He couldn't think of one thing he did wrong. Maybe there's a place for the hateful b***h at Focus on the Family. Oh wait, I forgot. There laying-off employees.
December 2, 2008
6:40 p.m.
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jbowen43 writes:
Musgrave lost because voters were tired of her divisiveness and lack of accomplishment. Bush was competitive in 2000 because he claimed he was "a uniter not a divider". That of course proved to be a lie. Obama won because he clearly articulated a vision of a united country and a foreign policy that would end our status as a rogue nation and bring the U S A back into the fold of the nations cooperating to make the earth a better place. Musgrave does not fit in anyone's vision of leader for the twenty first century. The people of CD 4 have spoken overwhelmingly on this issue except for those rural counties that barely made it into the twentieth century before the change came in 2000.
December 2, 2008
6:47 p.m.
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haloguy628 writes:
So leftist OUT OF STATE interests supposedly defeated her so she turns around and spews lies in Georgia, an act that she just condemned. Hmmmm, scratching head....
Go back to obscurity Musgrave.
December 2, 2008
6:53 p.m.
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Gonzopozo writes:
I have family in Windsor who "never voted for a Democrat until this year" , when even the most die-hard conservatives just couldn't find a way to vote for Musgrave. That's why she lost and why she needs to stay lost.
December 2, 2008
6:54 p.m.
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expatman writes:
Although I don't vote in the 4th district I admit I breathed a sigh of relief when the elction results came in. Behavior of this type is exactly why she so richly deserved to be sent packing from D.C.
What happened to the warm, fuzzy bipartisan image she so disingenuously tried to project at the end of the campaign? Good riddance to idealogue partisan rubbish.
December 2, 2008
6:54 p.m.
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anya writes:
Well, this is just funny. Her losing has nothing with her being a raging rethuglican loony, of course. I was a Republican for many many years; no more - the Republican philosophy is gone; they all seem to be brutal single-issue dumb people these days.
December 2, 2008
6:57 p.m.
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windskull writes:
HOORAY! District 4 is rid of this self serving rural blight whose statement above confirms beyond any doubt she`s delusional and in dire need of clinical help if not cult deprogramming.The first thing we need is regulatory oversight of rural utility companies that have monopolized the region under the guise of CO-OP`s charge platinum rates delivering bare minimum services while routinely engaging in price gouging of fixed income customers,something Marilyn completely ignored
December 2, 2008
7:02 p.m.
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HopiMedicineMan writes:
No one will believe this, but despite Lincoln and forcing the 1964 Civil Rights act, there's a racist segment of the Republican Party. It is practiced, for example, at the very top of the Jeffco GOP. However, Musgrave is a strong supporter of minority participation in the Party. She is also a strong advocate of sobriety, an issue close to my heart. Her message was muffled, partly by a poor campaign, much like Beauprez's, and the leftist media. The future belongs to Hispanics. If this party doesn't get it's act together on the life issue, it will lose the Hispanic and Indian vote altogether.
December 2, 2008
7:06 p.m.
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bluffan writes:
The real shame in all this is that scare tactics like Musgrave's seem to be working -- with half the votes counted, Saxxby Chambliss has a big lead.
December 2, 2008
7:07 p.m.
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easy writes:
Holy awesomeness ...
"... smothered the truth with vicious attacks and lies."
Marylin, did you really say this? Have you actually watched your ads? Reality called ... guess you still aren't home.
Thanks for the laugh.
December 2, 2008
7:07 p.m.
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Norseman writes:
"oink oink oink oink, blah blah bah, oink oink oink"
Oh, what's that you said Marilyn?
Couldn't have been "Congratulations on your victory Betsy Markey".
Even a Newsweek pointed out her ungracious departure.
Good riddance...
December 2, 2008
7:08 p.m.
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SheikYurBooty writes:
That chick is seriously whacked. I hope she gets the help she needs....
December 2, 2008
7:11 p.m.
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Gotham writes:
For Ms. Musgrave to blame her loss on some "leftist" cabal is at best disingenuous; at worst it is just another of her lame excuses.
The vitriol in her ads earned her defeat.
I'm glad she lost. She deserved the opportunity to see life from the point where most of the rest of us must see it.
December 2, 2008
7:18 p.m.
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conservative111 writes:
Hey hopimedicine man, more republicans voted (80%) than did democrats (64%) for the civil rights act in 1964. Crack a book and learn some AMERICAN history for once. This is a FACT you libs and the media fail to acknowledge.
December 2, 2008
7:24 p.m.
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Zay writes:
Musgrave was a cruddy person and politician. That attitude looks bad on anyone, left or right. It was her personality and her lies, arrogance and horrible attitude that got her out, nothing more or less. There have been people like that on both sides of the fence, pointing fingers here saying "that represents the right" is... well, just wrong as there are plenty of little 'issues' that have come up with democrats in offices.
She deserved to lose. And I think it shows a lot about her lack of character that she never called to concede. What a poor sport and human being. Any cause that she tries to support will be tainted - and rightfully so.
About half of the republicans I know in District 4 voted for Markey because they couldn't vote for Musgrave in any good conscience.
I hope she fades into nothingness and reaps what she has sown.
December 2, 2008
7:28 p.m.
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climber4life writes:
You know, Bush did unite the country....against him, haha!
December 2, 2008
7:34 p.m.
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Tom writes:
Musgrave is the most ungracious loser I've ever heard of in the history of Colorado politics. Good riddance!
December 2, 2008
7:36 p.m.
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ActualThinker writes:
Conservative 111: The republican party of 1964 would be unrecognizable to the one today (or for the last 25 years for that matter). So while you are probably correct (I didn't look it up) it's not that relevant given its drastic differences to the party today.
December 2, 2008
7:42 p.m.
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conservative111 writes:
Actual thinker: give for instances of racism in the republican party of today.
December 2, 2008
7:56 p.m.
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windskull writes:
conservative111 how bout that vulgar nonsense regarding McCain`s black baby & that ad involving Harold Ford...Do you remember Florida 2000 & Ohio 2004 or KATRINA fer chrissakes make an appointment with your proctologist to get that head of yours examined !
December 2, 2008
8:10 p.m.
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hogarm writes:
Dear Marilyn, from a Brush voter who campaigned and voted against you.
You made your priorities clear.
Your first loyalty was to the fundamentalist Christians,
Your second loyalty was to the federalists,
You had no loyalty to me, a Colorado patriot.
Blame nothing other than your divided loyalties.
December 2, 2008
8:13 p.m.
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TallPaul writes:
She is right actually. The Democratic Party has become the party of big money buying elections. In Colorado, it includes Pat Stryker of Ft. Collins who is good every election cycle for $millions. She is a billionaire heiress to the Stryker fortune. Her billionaire brother John Stryker does the same thing in Michigan, donating $millions to influence their elections. Neither has ever done anything on their own, only giving inherited money away, and in return the Democrats kowtow up to them. Doesn't it bother all you "anti-rich" Democrats of the common people that Obama could renege on his commitment to take public money, just like McCain did, and instead outspent McCain three to one? This is the party of ideas? And now, it comes out that Obama's smokescreen that it was "youth" and "small-donors" in some sort of groundswell is totally false, that the youth turnout was exactly the same as in the last two presidential elections, and the large donor percentage was essentially the same as in the past! I think we're seeing what "change" means already: the Democrat cronies and insiders of the last twenty years. You've swallowed a bunch of marketing hooey. There were never any new ideas, and now we're seeing it.
December 2, 2008
8:39 p.m.
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PaleoConservative writes:
ActualThinker writes:
"Conservative 111: The republican party of 1964 would be unrecognizable to the one today (or for the last 25 years for that matter)."
JFK opposed Communism, respected the armed forces, fought crime, and lowered taxes. Would you recognize him as a Democrat today?
December 2, 2008
9:02 p.m.
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EZBakeOven writes:
No, Marilyn, you lost because you svck.
December 2, 2008
9:08 p.m.
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gs writes:
Please say if you are in her district. I'd like to know. some of the pundits say she lost because she ignored the needs of her district. Do many of you feel that way?
December 2, 2008
9:42 p.m.
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arthistorybabe writes:
She is hateful and divisive.
honey you are right - the voices in her head are scary and we all had to hear them. Marilyn, now go away, the people voted, that is what we do. Shoo, shoo....
December 2, 2008
9:50 p.m.
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dftoad writes:
Where in the Constitution does it say you have to concede to the pukes on the other side?
December 2, 2008
9:56 p.m.
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jbowen43 writes:
I am in Lincoln County smack in the middle of CD 4. Have known Marilyn for 34 years, and Betsy for 5 years. Read my post above.
The Democrats that opposed the civil rights and voting rights act were southern men who changed party affiliation and became republican racist supporters of Nixon and Reagan two racist republican presidents.
December 2, 2008
10:25 p.m.
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dirkle writes:
MUSGRAVE!!! - I can easily & clearly explain your thorough butt-whoopin' with one quick link -
Click HERE -> http://blog.peakdems.org/uploaded_ima...
December 2, 2008
10:33 p.m.
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bigjking69 writes:
Wow I have never seen so many ignorant people. I forgot that due to my geographic location my intelligence is significantly lower than all of you smart educated democrats from Denver. From now on I will allow Denver to vote for me. I must be the biggest (6'4) uneducated racist white man in Colorado because I'm a Republican and a rancher.
Jbowen43: How do you know Nixon and Reagan were racists? Did you know them or ever speak to them? Or are you just making childish remarks claiming two former President's to be racist because your maturity level denotes that you are person who votes on emotion rather than the issues?
This is the number one reason the founding fathers created the electoral college, because they felt the average citizen could not make an educated decision when voting.
And to the rest of you gloating democrats saying this is how Republicans whine????? I've seen worst examples in the last 8 years of you so called "liberals" (which is an insult to the definition) bashing Pres. Bush. When are you going to grow up? I enjoy playing Xbox with the best of them; but I don't have to make fun of people to make myself feel better like a 16 year old high school bully.
December 2, 2008
11:04 p.m.
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TYoungman writes:
From:
The Nixon Tapes, Racism and The Republicans
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson, AlterNet. Posted December 18, 2003.
"Nixon did more then simply sit by and passively listen to anti-black tirades by a trusted aide; he frequently spewed those same offensive racial epithets himself. In previous tapes released by the National Archives, Nixon told Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, "Henry, let's leave the niggers to Bill and we'll take care of the rest of the world" while working on his first presidential address to Congress. Nixon repeatedly referred to blacks as "niggers" and "jigaboos" in other conversations with Kissinger."
December 2, 2008
11:12 p.m.
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peterpi writes:
conservative111 (@7:18), HopiMedicineMan (@7:02) acknowledged that the Republican Party supported the 1964 Civil Rights Act. So what's your point?
Marilyn Musgrave was a complete idiot and a disaster. It's a shame that both sides used such shamelessly negative advertising, but I'm glad she lost.
dftoad, the Constitution doesn't say you have to concede to your opponent, it's just considered common courtesy. See, for example, John McCain's magnificent concession speech. The Constitution doesn't say you have to be courteous, it doesn't say you have to be polite, it doesn't say you should say "Please" and "Thank you". I hope Betsy Markey represents your interests a lot better than Marilyn Musgrave represented the interests of people she didn't approve of who resided in her district.
December 2, 2008
11:18 p.m.
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TYoungman writes:
By Walter Fields (black America Today)
June 8, 2004
"I recall my utter disgust when he (Ronald Reagan) launched his campaign in Philadelphia, Mississippi and failed to even acknowledge the injustices of an earlier era that resulted in the killing of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, three young civil rights workers. It was a purposeful snub by Reagan, who did express his support for “state’s rights”, designed to send a message to southern whites that the concerns and sentiments of Blacks were of no consequence to him. In a very real sense, the angry white man found refuge during the Reagan years.
Who can forget his attempt to reverse the long-standing policy of denying tax-exempt status to private school that practice discrimination, and his effort to provide an exemption to Bob Jones University? The U.S. Supreme Court eventually ruled against Reagan and reinstated the authority of the Internal Revenue Service to deny the university the exemption. It was an “in your face” gesture toward Blacks revealed the depths of the president’s racial animus.
We should also not forget that Ronald Reagan aligned himself with the apartheid government of Pretoria, choosing to pursue a policy of “constructive engagement” with white minority rule over the interests of the country’s Black majority. His use of Cold War rhetoric and the language of anti-communism were a convenient façade for the racist underpinnings of a foreign policy devoid of a concern for human rights and positioned against Black self-determination in sub-Saharan Africa."
December 2, 2008
11:31 p.m.
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TYoungman writes:
bigjking69:
"How do you know Nixon and Reagan were racists? Did you know them or ever speak to them? Or are you just making childish remarks claiming two former President's to be racist because your maturity level denotes that you are person who votes on emotion rather than the issues?"
Read my previous two posts - Nixon was certainly a racist (his racist remarks are on audio tapes in the National Archives. Where Reagan is concerned, he was much smarter with his words, but his actions (read policies) speak loud enough.
Your lack of intelligence has nothing to do with your "geographic location", you just need to read a little before opining so loudly.
December 3, 2008
12:44 a.m.
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Prism writes:
Let's not speak of the dead. They're gone! Doesn't matter! This is our time and it's not the time to blame anyone. Yes mistakes have been made. I'm glad Colorado voted her out.
She, like the Leader of the free world had become complacent and lost site of the direction of our country. Regardless of Black,White or Hispanic. It doesn't matter, we need a leader. Can he bring us back from the direction we are headed. Let's hope so.
God Bless America, bring our boys home!
December 3, 2008
2:55 a.m.
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ottopick writes:
Unfortunately we haven't heard the last of Musgrave. She couldn't even cough up the courage to call her opponent and concede and congratulate her on a victory. That means she'll be back as a state senator or run for govenor or something because she honestly feels she was stabbed in the back by "the liberals".
December 3, 2008
4:55 a.m.
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ColoradoClaire writes:
How do you spell S-O-R-E L-O-S-E-R???? The Musgrave-Markey battle was one of the ugliest and most embarrassing I can remember at any level of government. The results, however, are pleasing. Colorado is thankfully now rid of Musgrave, Allard AND Tancredo -- two through giving up their seats and one through electoral defeat. This unholy trio voted in lockstep with the Bushniks most of the time, and look at the mess they've left in the country and the state. I hope that in the next several election cycles, the electorate has a long enough memory not to vote anyone as far to the right and as wrong-headed these three have been. The Dems at least need the time to straighten out the chaos.
December 3, 2008
7:15 a.m.
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eventempered writes:
Wow, it's not hard to see who the real haters are hear. A little comment about the left (Tim Gill and Co-factual) and you guys foam up. Your person won Jeeez. You should worry about your Govenor being a one termer though.
By the way you know why this state doesn't have the deficits other states do? Tabor laws passed by the Republican state legislature and signed by a Republican Governor. If Dems had control back then we whould be running on deficite spending.
FYI, Obama sold you lefties out, he won't Govern from the left and you won't see much change because he wants a second term.
December 3, 2008
7:37 a.m.
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denverinfidel writes:
I grew up in northern colo, and am pretty conservative. Musgrave is a moron, always has been. Its takes a special kind of idiot to lose as a republican in that district. I have several friends and family in that district who are die-hard republicans who wouldn't even vote for her.
Can't even make a phone call conceding defeat? That pretty much sums it up.
December 3, 2008
7:49 a.m.
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Marshdale writes:
The Dems won in part because of the message and they also won because the majority of money donated came from working class pockets like mine. Sure some special interests donated big money and held fund raisers, but this election by and large was as grass roots as it gets, similar to the 2000 Bush campaign. People are looking for someone who cares about people not corporations. They are looking for health care, good education for their kids and a somewhat dignified retirement. They are looking for reinvesment in America, not companies who shift assets and jobs over seas. These companies blame our high corporate tax rates for the problem. True our corporate tax rate is the second highest in the world, but we also have the most tax loopholes of any other country making the effective tax rate on corporations about 26% which is among some of the lowest. So we are tired of hearing corporations whine. The right has been villifying the American worker for the past 40 years. We are tired of it. These and many other reasons are why Musgrave and her ilk lost. It was not special interests. That mantra has worn out to.
December 3, 2008
7:53 a.m.
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INC writes:
Sore looser... sums it up really well.
I am glad The electorate was willing to vote for someone wrapped in the constitution (Markey). Instead of someone wrapped in the flag (musgrave)
As the flag merely represents the Constitution.
December 3, 2008
8:12 a.m.
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Salchak_Toka writes:
ColoradoClaire: We might, repeat MIGHT, be rid of Tancredo, but we're certainly not rid of Musgrave and Allard. Musgrave will run a spoiler campaign in 2010 for her old seat. However, it looks like she'll have competition: It's Schaffer's old seat, too, and he seems to want it back. Watching Schaffer and Musgrave sling mud at each other will be entertaining, but the result will make Markey a one-termer.
As for Allard, he'll be CSU's next president. It never ceases to amaze me how even with Democrats running the state, state universities are still used as golden parachutes for failed Republican politicians, but there you have it.
December 3, 2008
8:15 a.m.
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mytwosense writes:
I have never heard before of a politician refusing to make a congratulations/conceding call to their opponent when they lose an election. I absolutely agree with the poster who wrote it says a lot about Marilyn Musgrave's character that she has refused to make such a call to Markey.
Not surprised, though, based on her former poor representation of our state. Glad she's gone.
December 3, 2008
8:15 a.m.
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BigJoey writes:
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: this woman has no character. Apparently she is delusional, too. Good riddance! Musgrave has to be one of the worst representatives ever to serve in Congress in the history of this country, and Colorado is better off without her.
December 3, 2008
8:27 a.m.
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eventempered writes:
Marshdale, that's what you want to think. It is now being revealed that many of Obama's finacial supoorters were foriegn and to think that the 527s don't pour money into campaign ads shows your ingnorance. As far as corporate tax breaks are concerned, your party's hypocracy shows. Dems claim "trickle down economics don't work" but when their precious unions, having demanded inflated pay, realize the company may go under they start talking about how the companies going bankrupt will "trickle down" and affect SOOOO many people. Sorry you can't have it both ways. This was a vote against Bush and any associated Republicans, NOT a vote for your candidates. Look at the stats, there was no ground swell of grass roots voters. The same number of students voted as last time, 2-3 % of Republicns did not vote. The independents swung your way and a lot more Blacks voted ( 30% Racist Blacks because they voted bsaed on skin color only). Grass roots in the black community maybe, but like I said Obama will abandon them for his own interest.
December 3, 2008
8:31 a.m.
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eventempered writes:
I would also add that grass roots implies unpaid volunteers, we know Obama paid for most of his "grass roots efforts"
December 3, 2008
8:47 a.m.
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FlyfishDude52 writes:
Ms. Musgrave,
I am a conservative and, mostly, a republican (certainly not a mccain or bush republican, but, rather, a Goldwater or Reagan republican, are there any left?) and you lost lost this election because you failed to represent your constituents, you abismal voting record, your outspoken views that did not reflect the values of Coloradans in the 4th district AND your whining, (b)itchy persona. I, for one, am not saddened in the least by your loss and hope that I never hear your name again!
December 3, 2008
9:14 a.m.
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wow writes:
Doesn't that poor woman have a PR guy to tell her when she's being stupid?
She was already in Congress, and had she done anything while there, she'd have kept the job. A nasty campaign run by her opponent had nothing to do with her defeat. The fact that there was an opponent, any opponent, was all that the people needed to get her out.
Fact is, a well trained llama could have beaten her in this race, because the woman has no redeeming qualities. We now know she's a sore loser, too.
December 3, 2008
9:18 a.m.
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Hank writes:
conservative111 -
"Hey hopimedicine man, more republicans voted (80%) than did democrats (64%) for the civil rights act in 1964."
Yes, and many of the southern democrats that opposed the civil rights act (such as Strom Thurmond) left the democratic party and joined the republican party who accepted the racists with open arms.
"Actual thinker: give for instances of racism in the republican party of today."
That's too easy - here's an example from right here in Colorado:
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news...
December 3, 2008
11:07 a.m.
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WhadUsay writes:
Gee my comment seems to have completely disappeared.
What I said was:
The words you are all looking for are: "Sour" and "Grapes".
December 3, 2008
11:10 a.m.
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dakar writes:
ah, people like jbowen on here don't want the US to be "rogue" but instead take their directives from the UN etc. Sorry but I'll take rogue any day over the UN making the call for us.
Regardless if you love or hate Musgrave, there's a lot of big money millionaires and billionaires trying to influence us in these elections and the bad thing is so many people subscribe to it.
December 3, 2008
11:48 a.m.
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Ashley writes:
@gs,
I live and work in the 4th CD, and yes, Marilyn Musgrave failed many of her constituents. I did appreciate her understanding of the rural part of this district, but she couldn't think for herself and marched in lock-step with the Bush Republicans (they've become their own special brand). She was a fundamentalist Pentacostal, which scared the heeby-jeebies out of many of us, and she never showed her face in my neck of the woods. After the May tornado in Windsor, she couldn't be bothered to come by except for a photo op. Sen. Salazar, on the other hand, was here several times and fought for us on the federal level. Same with Gov. Ritter. But Musgrave? She was clueless about most of the issues that affected REAL 4th CD residents, preferring to focus on advancing her own radical religious beliefs and condemning those of us who thought differently. I've never known a more unresponsive politician (wait, except Kevin Lundberg), and good riddance to her bad rubbish.
December 3, 2008
12:32 p.m.
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conservative111 writes:
Hey, at least the republicans don't have an EX KLU KLUX KLAN member in their ranks like the dems do in the Senate with Mr. Robert Byrd of West Virginia for the past 50 years! Strom Thurmond in his later years repudiated his none support of the civil rights act. Hey Windskull, do YOU remember Obama in one of his books wanting to purge himself of his WHITE BLOOD. Is that racist? How about 95% of all blacks that voted voting for Obama, is that racist? Florida's elections went to court and GET OVER IT, the dems lost! Katrina was both a fed and LOCAL problem, with DEMS in the Gov's seat IF I remember correctly.
December 3, 2008
1:33 p.m.
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jay writes:
just one more republican refusing to take some responsibility for their actions.
December 3, 2008
1:39 p.m.
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JimmyTheSaint writes:
Yep. One less "my vote is for sale" politician out of the Congress. Thank goodness.
December 3, 2008
2:14 p.m.
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Marshdale writes:
Eventempered; You show your ignorance. 527's can't contribute directly to the campaign. It's against the law!!!!! There was, a ground swell of support. Dems who have not voted in years, voted. Obama won by about 5% of the popular vote. Way outpacing Bush in 2000 and 2004. As a matter of fact Kerry won the popular vote in 2004. Bush only won with electoral votes. Obama won both popular and electoral votes this go round. You need to get your facts straight.!!!!!!!!!!!
December 3, 2008
2:29 p.m.
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JimmyTheSaint writes:
Marshdale:
You're arguing with a guy that can't spell "ignorance" or "supporters" or "financial" or "hypocrisy".
I think you're wasting your (albeit good) efforts.
December 3, 2008
3:01 p.m.
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ML writes:
Newsweek named her one of the most ungracious (that's being kind!) losers of the election year.
December 3, 2008
3:29 p.m.
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justaskme writes:
She is still (with all her faults) better than any liberial low-life democrat. democrats, just don't get it and can never accept a different view point. I just cannot stand democrats....I'm loving this !!! No need to respond, I am on to bigger and more important things then ranting and raving in a worthless blog that I stumbled across.
December 3, 2008
4:14 p.m.
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Hank writes:
conservative111 -
"Hey Windskull, do YOU remember Obama in one of his books wanting to purge himself of his WHITE BLOOD. Is that racist? "
No doofus, because Obama never said **he** wanted to "purge himself of his WHITE BLOOD". Obama was referring to a line in Malcolm-X's autobiography. The actual Obama quote is:
"He spoke of a wish he'd once had, the wish that the white blood that ran through him, there by an act of violence, might somehow be expunged."
"How about 95% of all blacks that voted voting for Obama, is that racist?"
Why don't you tell us - do YOU think a vast majority of blacks are racist? Or could it be that they had legitimate reasons not to vote republican - you know the same party that spread the lie about McCain fathering a black child?
December 3, 2008
4:39 p.m.
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BO writes:
Actually Marshdale, it was Gore in 2000 that won the popular vote, not Kerry in 2004.
December 3, 2008
9:54 p.m.
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mcsame_failin writes:
eventempered writes:
I would also add that grass roots implies unpaid volunteers, we know Obama paid for most of his "grass roots efforts"
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Quit spewing your dysfunctional ruminations as if they are facts. You know nothing about the grass roots organization of the Obama campaign if you think it was paid for by the campaign. I took part in a well organized get out the vote effort involving 100 people or more in just one precinct, and only met one paid staffer who just checked in occasionally. We were all pitching in $10 - $20 in a jar to cover the facilities expenses. Like the campaign contributions, this election was paid for by the majority of people who so sorely want a real change for the better, with their own money, time, and effort.
December 3, 2008
10:03 p.m.
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EZBakeOven writes:
"justaskme writes:
She is still (with all her faults) better than any liberial low-life democrat. democrats, just don't get it and can never accept a different view point. I just cannot stand democrats....I'm loving this !!! No need to respond, I am on to bigger and more important things then ranting and raving in a worthless blog that I stumbled across."
ROFL, Jesus, it's the repubs who can't seem to "accept a different point of view." "Just stumbled across"...yeah right. Troll.
December 5, 2008
11:22 a.m.
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LuvAmerica writes:
"She declared unequivocally — after 9/11 and the launching of two wars — that the union of same-sex couples is 'the most important issue we face today.'
"Musgrave was re-elected twice by a 4th District that since 1972 has been among the most solidly Republican territory in America. Her grandstanding against buggery and other forms of extra-biblical recreation has helped earn her a 100 percent rating and a top spot on the American Conservative Union's list of the most right-wing members of Congress. She's a living symbol of the Era of Rove, when all a politician needs to do to get elected is go to church, make freckled babies and whine about how things are going to s___ because some minority group is queering the deal."
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/stor...
A great read.